Paullina Simons

“You think she needs a chaperone?” When they didn’t answer, the nun tutted disapprovingly. “Let me explain something to you, Mrs. Attaviano,…

— Paullina Simons

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

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“I saved you for me.”

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“You want to know what I thought of in that boat? I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive…

— Paullina Simons

Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she…

— Paullina Simons

“Alexander: “First we will send the frontovik into the streets with guns. When they are dead, we will send me, with a…

— Paullina Simons

“Have a joke for me Tania," he says, "I could use a joke." "Hmm." She thinks, looks at him, looks to see…

— Paullina Simons

I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot…

— Paullina Simons

“They came with their children, for no one left the children behind - it was for the children they had come, wanting…

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We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I…

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“Come on,” he said quietly, bending to her and lifting her whole into his arms. He carried her inside. After setting her…

— Paullina Simons

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

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“What a prison you have set up for me with your first love.” She put her arms tighter around him and said…

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Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

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“We’re moving cities, we’re changing our name just like this hotel. You call that all right?” “Yes,” she said. “We still have…

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“She ate it and cried. Soon, he put the melting ice cream away. "Shura," Tatiana whispered, "darling, forget what should have been.…

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“Alexander was right, she thought, He has been right about everything. Everything that he told me would happen has come to pass.”

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“He was breathing heavily. “I honestly don’t understand what’s wrong with you,” he said. “You’re telling me to pack my bags, to…

— Paullina Simons

“Sanchez got the phone call, listened carefully, glanced over at Spencer, in Whittaker's office, having his morning coffee. Hung up the phone,…

— Paullina Simons

“I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.”

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“We've had a minute, Tatiana thought. We had our minutes on the bus. And at Kirov. We had our minutes in Lugo.…

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“Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.”

— Paullina Simons

“Just a breath ago, an eighteen-year-old nurse was bending over Rebecca’s father’s father, a wounded soldier in a Soviet hospital, saying, yes,…

— Paullina Simons

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains…

— Paullina Simons

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

— Paullina Simons